Limitation Quotes - Page 24

• Someone said, and rightfully, that "property is theft'." There's no way a man can stand and tell me that he owns an apple tree. I just don't believe you. And so this pursuit of position and money and power, they are all wrapped up into one package that I think is crippling, debilitating and limiting. And unfortunately, people get sucked into it and then they've got you on the treadmill. You know: ''You've got to have a good job'' and "You've got to have a good education'' - which is another word for indoctrination. We're never going to rise above these limitations we've placed on ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.

  Ken Auletta

  Zuckerberg, Platforms, Interest

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• When I lost my faith in people I put my trust in things To avoid the disappointment Trusting people brings... I tried to do it all myself then Surrounded by my stuff All I found were limitations I could not rise above There are gadgets and contraptions Immaculate machines There's a program you can download now That will even dream your dreams It'll even dream you dreams For a monthly fee Clear up your complexion You get a hundred hours free Possessions cannot save you.

  John Gorka

  Dream, Disappointment, People

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• Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.

  Nick Saban

  Self, Sky, Limits

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• Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Matter, Teach

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• I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Weakness, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Opportunity, Done, Want

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

  Charlton Heston

  Television, Facts, Mediums

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• The feeling of reduced gravity and the limitations of the space suit resulted in a slow-motion movement. Perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Feelings, Movement

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them in the first place.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Thinking, Stuff, One Line

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Years, Ideas, People

  Source: www.mightycompanions.org

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• I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.

  Richard Bach

  Book, Thinking, World

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

  William Osler

  Teaching, Race, Mind

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.340, Duke University Press

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• I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

  Yoko Ono

  Creativity, Thinking, People

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis and Briseis are strong, passionate women and in another time and place their lives would have been very different. Part of the tragedy of their characters is how much they have to offer - and how little of that they get to realize. Thetis spends the whole novel fighting the limitations placed on her, desperately trying to eke out the best she can from a bad situation. This makes her fierce and terrifying.

  Madeline Miller

  Strong, Character, Fighting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.

  Stan Shih

  Vision, Needs, Strategy

  "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.

  Stan Shih

  Strong, Mean, Trying

  "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.

  Bill Henson

  Differences, Mediums, Inherent

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  Taken, Thinking, Justice

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Self, Differences, Use

  Source: www.orthodoxytoday.org

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• The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.

  Clarence Thomas

  Exercise, Government, Freedom Of Speech

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• He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, World, Realizing

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.133, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.

  Kate Grenville

  Book, Way, Needs

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• The main thing is, too many players feel like they're complete players when they're not, so rather than acknowledge their limitations and play within their ability, they overreach.

  Tex Winter

  Player, Ability, Feels

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.

  Wendy Kopp

  Real, Believe, School

  Source: www.economist.com

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